Sarah L. Holloway is Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University; she is co-author of Geographies of New Femininities. Gill Valentine is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield; her numerous publicationss include co-authoring Consuming Geographies, Cool Places and Mapping Desire, all published by Routledge.

1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill ValentinePart I: Playing, 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space Owain Jones, 3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces: negotiating independence in rural Bolivia Samantha Punch, 4. The 'street as thirdspace' Hugh Matthews, Melanie Limb and Mark Taylor 5. 'Nothing to do, nowhere to go'?: teenage girls and 'public' space in the Rhondda Valleys, South Wales Tracey Skelton, 6. Time for a party!: making sense of the commercialisation of leisure space for children John H. McKendrick, Michael G. Bradford and Anna V. FieldingPart II: Living, 7. Play, rights and borders: gender bound parents and the social construction of children Stuart C. Aitken, 8. Home and movement: children constructing 'family time' Pia Christensen, Allison James and Chris Jenks, 9. Transforming cyberspace: children's interventions in the new public sphere Gill Valentine, Sarah L, Holloway and Nick Bingham, 10. Young carers in Southern Africa? Exploring stories from Zimbabwean secondary school students Elsbeth Robson and Nicola Ansell, 11. Home sweet home? Street children's sites of belonging Harriet BeazleyPart III: Learning, 12. Playing the part: performing gender in American playgrounds Elizabeth A. Gagen, 13. Walk on the left! Children's geographies and the primary school Shaun Fielding, 14. 'Out of school', in school: a social geography of out of school childcare Fiona Smith and John Barker, 15. Nature's dangers, nature's pleasures: urban children and the natural Lily Kong